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In this section we will periodically upload documents related to drugs and harm reduction, reports about our activity, alerts detected by our International Drug Testing Service, adulterants in drugs… If you want to suggest us any subject to publish, or if you want to collaborate with us sending your own texts, please e-mail us.

This is an official statement by DoctorX & his Chemical Brothers and Sisters. 1.- Harm Reduction, Drug Checking and Cryptomarkets: Our International Drug Checking Service was launched in 2014 to expand Energy Control’s core Harm Reduction strategy...

This is an alert from DoctorX & his Chemical Brothers and Sisters. Our International Drug Checking Service has detected a dangerous adulteration in a serie of eight samples submitted as “alprazolam” for drug testing during the last month. Our analyses have...

This is an alert from DoctorX & his Chemical Brothers and Sisters. Our International Drug Checking Service has detected a dangerous adulteration in one of our samples submitted for drug testing. This sample was received in our headquarters on 28/Dic/2018,...

This is an alert from DoctorX & his Chemical Brothers and Sisters. Our International Drug Checking Service has detected a pill containing toxic adulterants.This sample was received in our headquarters on 10/Dic/2018, delivered from United States. It is an orange...

This is a brief report by DoctorX and his Chemical Brothers and Sisters covering available information about risks of N Ethyl-Pentylone, a novel and dangerous NPS recently detected as adulterant of MDMA pills and powders. Last month our Drug Checking...

This is the first of a series of periodic reports that will analyse and discuss the results of our Energy Control-International Drug Checking Service. This report is focused on the problem of heroin adulterated with fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives. Drug...

This article focuses on the repercussions of scheduling NPS as they emerge on the "legal" market. Particularly U-49900, a synthetic opioid that is an analogue of U-47700 (which is itself an analog of an earlier now-banned opioid: AH-7921) It seems that demand for...

This article explores the presence of tryptamines classified as NPS among the substances delivered for analysis to a harm-reduction organization, to describe the substances found in the samples after analysis, and to compare analytical results of regulated vs....

This article presents results of the analysis of 3 NPS: clephedrone (4-CMC), 4-chloroethcathinone (4-CEC), and brephedrone (4-BMC) on recreational drug markets and a systematic review of all the available information concerning these substances. It presents the...

This article describes the misrepresentation of LSD at Portugal's Boom Festival 2014 and the prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe among LSD consumers attending a drug-checking service. We found that the majority of service users who received...

The utility of drug checking services as monitoring tools and more: A response to Pirona et al. is a response to the article titled New psychoactive substances: Current health-related practices and challenges in responding to use and harms in Europe by Pirona et al....

After several deaths, poisonings and severe intoxications in several Melbourne (Australia) clubs in 15-17 January, we have received a sample of capsules sold as MDMA from Australia, related to these health problems. The complete drug testing has revealed the...

This report presents the synthetic substances, tested by Energy Control’s National Drug Checking Service, their adulteration and the users’ profile. This report summarizes results from Spain during 2015, and collects no data from our International Drug Testing Service...

Year after year, when the summer comes, with the arrival of good weather, also comes the sound of live music festival rhythm throughout the whole territory. Festivals lasting several days, may involve some additional risks compared to a night / party session:...

Energy Control is a Spanish harm reduction project for recreational drug users. Since 1997, we develop harm reduction projects and, since then, we have been recognized and acknowledged by local, national and European institutions. Our Drug Checking Service, originally...